While speaking at a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers, Lukashenka said that Belarus is ready to do everything to establish peace in Donbas.
“The international situation is now literally saturated with tension. The most dangerous trend in the Euro-Atlantic area is the loosening of the system of counterbalances that previously held back rival states and blocs. Being in a peculiar geopolitical fault, Belarus is aware of the ineffectiveness of the confrontation spiral in the European region. We are actually on the threshold of a new arms race. Experts say that the cold war is already going on,” Lukashenka said.
He noted that “attempts to develop a new paradigm of the world order do not take place at the negotiating table, but in hot spots,” the closest of which is Donbas.
“Thanks to the Minsk agreements, large-scale military operations there stopped, but people, unfortunately, continue to die. Once again I confirm that we are ready to do everything to ensure peace in Donbas on the principles of compliance with all international legal formalities and with the consent of the conflicting parties, “Lukashenka said.
The international expert conference “Eastern Europe: In Search of Security for All” is planned for May 2018 in Minsk. Also in 2018, Minsk will host the OSCE antiterrorist conference “Prevention and Combating Terrorism in the Digital Age” and a meeting of the Main Group of the Munich Security Conference. Lukashenka urged the partner countries “at the highest level” to join the discussion of the situation during these events.
Earlier, Lukashenka reported that he was ready to send a peacekeeping contingent to the east of Ukraine, if there was an agreement between Putin and Poroshenko. He spoke about “ten thousand servicemen”, although there is only one peacekeeping company in Belarus. At the same time, Ukraine, since 2015, advocated for the peacekeepers contingent to have neither Russian nor Belarusians.
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